Word: rublee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yes, the Soviet Union is unquestionably selling grain, coal and oil abroad for less than production cost in rubles at 50¢ per ruble.
But only in Moscow is the ruble quoted at 50¢. On foreign exchange, foreign bankers quote it at but 6¢ or 7¢. On that basis the cost of grain, coal and oil produced in Russia is definitely less than the sales price abroad.
Thus the value which a man sets upon the ruble determines for him whether the Soviet State is guilty or not guilty of "dumping." If one believes the ruble is worth 50¢, one finds Russia guilty; if one believes the ruble is worth 10¢ or less, one finds her not...
Vanished Hopes; Bourgeois Spoils. One by one the other prisoners rose to confess. Planner Victor Larichev, until his arrest a member of the State Planning Commission, testified that he was the "treasurer" of the conspirators (who called themselves "The Counter-Revolutionary Party"), had handled some $2,300,000 in foreign...
Quiet sitters at the back of their Soviet union hall were five women whom Ogpu (Soviet secret police) pounced on last week, arrested. All were charged with falsifying their identity papers, accused of being former nuns masquerading as proletarians. Two of them, whilom Mother Superior Belayeva and Sister Danilova (both...